Help please!! I've followed all the good advice I can find on these forums to try and get the modem in my Thinkpad 600E (type 2645-910) working.

The laptop has Windows 98 installed and I'm live CD working with PuppyLinux 4.0 using the quickboot option
The modem works fine under W98 although I have noticed that the irq configuration is different (COM2 is irq 5).

My current state is:

I've added the mwave module to the system using System - BootManager

Menu - System - Hardinfo shows that the mwave module has installed and

dmesg shows that I've got a 16550A uart at irq 3

setserial confirms that /dev/ttyS1 is 16550A uart at irq3

/proc/tty/driver/serial shows that chars are being TX on the uart

So.....everything seems to check out OK BUT no chars are being RX from the uart and consequently PupDial (/etc/wvdial.conf manually edited modem = /dev/ttyS1; baud = 115200) says:

For Test - Modem - "There is no modem to test"

For Test - Probe - "Sorry, no modem was detected!"

for Connect to Internet - "Modem not responding"

I've also tried modem-stats but nothing seems to come back from the modem

I'd be very grateful if anyone can suggest what to try next as I'm pulling my hair out..............

Thanks
Peter

p.s. I'm frustrated as the rest of PuppyLinux looks great and I'd love to ditch W98 but I do need the modem to work first!

p.p.s I'm using my PC to post to the forum so including dumps from the laptop is not possibleLast edited by peebee on Mon 29 Sep 2008, 18:47; edited 1 time in total

Do you mean the quickboot setting in bios? This should be set to "off" and your hardware will then work better under Linux. This is well documented on the web, especially at thinkwiki.org

Hi tempestuous

Thanks for your interest - do you think this would cause the problem I've described? I've tried most combinations of quickboot settings - both in the bios setup and also in the Puppy boot sequence (as per system - bootmanager). What should the settings be do you think?

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